Top 5 X-Men Movies
We’ve finally reached the ultimate conclusion of #XMenWeek! Now that we’ve reviewed the movies and you’ve had a chance to get caught up on all things X-Men, it’s time to discuss which movies stand out from the others. If you…
Review| The Wolverine
This film has one of the coolest posters of any Marvel movie, and that was enough to excite me to see it in the summer of 2013. After the canon decimating mess that was X-Men Origins: Wolverine, the clawed tough…
Review| X-Men Origins: Wolverine
On the heels of the highest grossing, yet most critically reviled installment of the X-men franchise, X-Men: The Last Stand, Fox tried to continue the money machine by focusing on their most popular X-man, Wolverine. It’s hard to argue against…
Review| X-Men: The Last Stand
Everyone wants to be accepted. Even those who spurn acceptance do so to be accepted for not accepting who they are. Perhaps the biggest theme of any X-Men story is identity and being accepted. The whole premise of the original…
Review| X2: X-Men United
Believe it or not, there was a time when there were not a dozen superhero movies being released every year. It almost seems mythological at this point, our brains are so saturated these days with people with powers beating up…
Review| X-Men
How does one make a film with characters called Storm, Sabertooth, Cyclops, and Magneto and make it believable? Well, with a great sense of humor about itself and some poignant and relevant themes. Starting very purposefully with a WWII-era scene…
Review| Eddie the Eagle
I have to start with an admission; I’m a sucker for underdog movies. Eddie the Eagle is an inspirational film. It, however, is not a film where you say…”I didn’t see that coming!”. It plays out the way you think…
In Theaters February 26th, 2016
As we move into the last weekend of February, the offerings are getting quite exciting! It is especially exciting to see Netflix jumping in with their “wide” release over their streaming service of the sequel to Ang Lee’s 2000 wuxia…
Review| Pan: When Bad Things Happen to Good Ideas
“Resoundingly god-awful” and “theme-park ride from hell,” are just a couple of phrases popular critics are throwing around regarding Joe Wright’s adaptation of Peter Pan. I am quite a fan of Wright’s films, and I also know that every director…
In Theaters October 9th, 2015
After a weekend of great new movies with a box office and critical win for The Martian, this week is equally great with some much hyped movies starring some of the biggest and best names! Disney’s latest, Pan, has been a movie…